On the way down, a passing car threw up a stone that hit Graham's right forearm with some force. He has a nice little bruise as a souvenir.
After this we cycled to Shrewsbury and then on to Wem and Whitchurch, which appeared to be shut so finding a place to buy lunch proved challenging. We did find some high calorie items in a supermarket however.
Traffic levels were very light in the morning but became locally quite heavy on the A49 in the afternoon when we passed car boot sales, bank holiday fairs and numerous motorway junctions. We have developed an effective joint strategy for negotiating multi-lane roundabouts. Having selected our exit we move into the appropriate approach lane and block it by riding side by side. This stops cars cutting us up and the charity sign on our panniers seems to defuse potential road rage. We then have to judge carefully when to launch out onto the roundabout, staring oncoming drivers in the eyes and seeking a gap in traffic. Then when we are positioned in the correct lane just before our exit, the outermost rider surges ahead to the leftmost edge of the lane in front of the innermost rider. This is quite an exhilarating sport (you can see William's anticipation in the picture) - I would call it death defying except that the wives might read this, so in fact it is the safest and most sensible way of crossing such roundabouts, honest!
We finished today's ride going along a canal towpath through Wigan.